A change in progress

Talk about an enigmatic title for a blog post.  "a change in progress".  Both a reference to the way progress is changing as well as the first meaning, a reference to change which is happening now.  The current reverence for what is happening now is an interesting phenomenon that requires people to 'be present' so that they can experience what is in front of them, all around them, with fewer blocks to their perceptions. 

There is so much happening now that fewer blocks to awareness seem important as an adaptive survival requirement.  However, the speed at which change is occuring is accelerating and the physical comparison is apt.  So, when our need to remain open to change is not constant, then some of our awareness is needed to gauge how open we are against how open we should be to what is coming.  This is a future based system of awareness that can be seen in terms of , for example, what to buy to maximize the ability to express oneself now through tools like cameras, while realizing that once that money is spent, within a short period of time, a sometimes radically improved camera will be available, sometimes for even less money, if only the buyer waits.  Of course, the speed of change varies, and the need to allow consumers access to greater freedom is severely limited by manufacturers who are keenly aware of where their market lies spread between high-end buyers who spend more because they make their living off the technology, and who buy fewer items that must be of better quality, and those who, like myself, buy the latest greatest to expand my freedom of expression while being very aware of the almost immediate obsolescence of the articles being purchased if the timing is bad, and who suffer when the article purchased is fatally damaged within moments of the warranty expiring.

To be more specific, I now own my first digital SLR, but within a short time of buying it and taking many thousands of still images with it I have now purchased my first HD camera, which to its credit takes the same lenses as my SLR, albeit with an adaptor which cost as much as some cameras available now which have more flexible zooms, but smaller receptors to process the images.  And on it goes.